NORTH CAROLINA GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, INC. v. SOLIS

No. 1:09CV411.

NORTH CAROLINA GROWERS' ASSOCIATION, INC., NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION, FLORIDA FRUIT & VEGETABLE ASSOCIATION, INC., VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL GROWERS ASSOCIATION, INC., SNAKE RIVER FARMERS ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYERS, NORTH CAROLINA CHRISTMAS TREE ASSOCIATION, NORTH CAROLINA PICKLE PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION, FLORIDA CITRUS MUTUAL, NORTH CAROLINA AGRIBUSINESS COUNCIL, INC., MAINE FOREST PRODUCTS COUNCIL, ALTA CITRUS, LLC, EVERGLADES HARVESTING & HAULING, INC., DESOTO FRUIT AND HARVESTING, INC., FOREST RESOURCES ASSOCIATION, TITAN PEACH FARMS, INC., H-2A USA, INC., and OVERLOOK HARVESTING COMPANY, LLC, Plaintiffs, v. HILDA L. SOLIS, in her official capacity as United States Secretary of Labor, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, JANET NAPOLITANO, in her official capacity as United States Secretary of Homeland Security, and UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, Defendants, and UNITED FARM WORKERS, JAMES CEASE, MARIO CENTENO-RODRIGUEZ, JUAN CISNEROS-IBARRA, LUIS ENRIQUE CISNEROS-IBARRA, REYMUNDO GUTIERREZ, CARLOS LUIS GUZMAN-AVILA, JUAN LUIS GUZMAN-CENTENO, JOSE RAUL GUZMAN-CENTENO, ABELARDO HERNANDEZ-AGUAS, GREGORIO HUERTAS-SAMANO, PEDRO IBARRA-AVILA, ATANACIO LUGO-RINCON, OBDULA MALDONADO-ABELLANEDA, MIGUEL ANGEL OLGUIN-HERNANDEZ, ARTURO OLGUIN-MONROY, OMERA RODRIGUEZ-GUZMAN, DESIDERIO TOVAR-ZAPATA, and ALEJANDRO TREJO-LEON, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, M.D. North Carolina.

October 4, 2011.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

WILLIAM L. OSTEEN, Jr., District Judge.

Before the court are Plaintiffs' Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 124) and Defendant-Intervenors' Motions for Partial Summary Judgment (Docs. 131, 132). Plaintiffs allege that the Department of Labor ("DOL") suspended a rule and imposed a new rule without following the requisite procedures for "rule making" as set forth in the Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"...

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